I am just about ready to start my roadtrip to the Dayton Hamvention. Only have to gas up and pack the car tonight and I will be ready to roll at 4 AM tomorrow.
The weather forecast is about the same as yesterday with some showers predicted for the trip out on Thursday, but the rest of the weekend looks very good.
To track my trip, check out the Where’s LOU? links below on the right .
The National Weather Service updated their forecast for the Hamvention weekend and it looks like it could be a wet roadtrip to Dayton on Thursday. Otherwise, the forecast looks very good for the rest of the weekend:
Thursday: A slight chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 65. Light wind becoming northeast between 12 and 15 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.
Thursday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 44.
Friday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 71.
Friday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 50.
Saturday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 73.
Saturday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 53.
Sunday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 75.
Sunday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 55.
Here is the good news from the National Weather Service:
Thursday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 68.
Thursday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 45.
Friday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 70.
Friday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 51.
Saturday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 74.
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Saturday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 53.
Sunday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 73.
We had a heck of a storm pass through here Sunday and Monday. Adding up the totals from yesterday and today, the weather station here recorder 5 inches (on the dot) of precipitation, maximum recorded winds at 38 MPH winds, and a low barometric reading of 971.6 mb at 7:50 AM today, which is pretty darn low!
For days, the local television weather gurus and their talking head counterparts in the news departments have been predicting that a huge storm, a classic “Nor’easter,” was going to strike our neck of the woods today. As the big storm approached, the chatter on the local television stations got louder and louder striking fear into the hearts of the citizens and causing a run on bread, milk, and gasoline at the local convenience stores.
Meanwhile, the National Weather Service has been downgrading the storm for the past two days. If you compare the NWS forecasts with the stories coming out of the local television stations, you would think they were talking about different weather events.
So, why are the television stations sticking to their stories and still predicting a big storm?
Are they just fear mongers, who are trying to scare people to such a degree that they will stay tuned to the local television stations so not to miss any of pearls of wisdom dripping from the local newscasters’ mouths and more importantly, the countless advertisements and commercials that surround those rare pearls?
Anyway, this morning, I am eating breakfast, reading the newspaper, and listening to the local news on WVIT – Channel 30. WVIT is still playing up the storm big time and they have a reporter named Amy down on the shoreline in New Haven reporting on the weather conditions on/in Long Island Sound.
Amy is really agitated about the deteriorating weather conditions and to make her point, she says that two hours ago (at 7 AM) the beach where she was standing was not covered with water, but that now (at 9 AM), that same spot is inundated with surging water!
I shout back at Amy, “It’s called ‘high tide,’” but she does not hear me and prattles on with her report. (High tide in New Haven was at 10:02 AM today.)
So, was Amy just doing her job and being a good little fear monger for WVIT or is she just an idiot and does not know about high tides?
We made it to February 2 before we experienced a real snowstorm. Between 6 PM and 11 PM, we received about 4 inches of snow.
Last night, it was great snowball-making snow, but it lost something overnight and this morning, it was not very good snowball-making snow.
Less than three weeks ago, I lost the humidity readings at the WA1LOU weather station.
Yesterday, I noticed that the humidity readings were back! I did nothing to fix it, so go figure.
Our brush with winter continues as the temperature bottomed out at 1°F early this morning. Meanwhile, except for small piles of shoveled snow along the driveway and walkways, the snow has disappeared here and our near-snowless winter continues.
Overnight, it snowed. Not much (maybe an inch), but there was enough of it that I had to use a shovel to remove it.
So we made it through almost one month of winter without any snow. I wonder how the remaining two months will go.
It turned cold here yesterday and got as low as 8°F overnight. The forecast is for more cold weather throughout the week.
Yet, as we approach the one-month mark of winter, there has still been next to nothing here in the way of frozen precipitation since last winter (not that there is anything wrong with that).